ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu
Data Sheet Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : ByteDance Brings Google-Like Search to China — With Censorship Matt Southern / Search Engine Journal : TikTok's Parent Company ByteDance is Launching a Search En...
Sources: ByteDance, which is adding thousands of employees to its 40K staff, expects a net loss of ~$1B in 2018 and revenues of $18B this year and $29B in 2020
Most nights, from around 7 till midnight, Sydney Jade is on TikTok, the smartphone app of the moment. Tweets: @sbanjo , @sbanjo , and @davidramli Tweets: Shelly Banjo / @sbanjo : TikTok is the most po...
More Chinese-born tech workers now return home from the US for faster salary growth, no “bamboo ceiling”, and chance to work with high volumes of intimate data
An exodus triggered by abundant capital, growing innovation and flourishing career opportunities Tweets: @davidramli , @tanayj , and @davidramli Tweets: David Ramli / @davidramli : One issue is the “B...
More Chinese-born tech workers now return home from the US for faster salary growth, no “bamboo ceiling”, and chance to work with high volumes of intimate data
An exodus triggered by abundant capital, growing innovation and flourishing career opportunities Tweets: @davidramli , @tanayj , and @davidramli Tweets: David Ramli / @davidramli : One issue is the “B...
Profile of Tencent and its President Martin Lau as it plans to expand outside China, where it dominates user attention on smartphones by offering many services
Bloomberg : Tweets: @wohlfarthmiriam , @davidramli , @luluyilun , and @saulsinger Tweets: Miriam Wohlfarth / @wohlfarthmiriam : Amazing #Tencent story -# WeChat now has 937.8 million active users-nex...
Millions of Chinese live-streaming daily events, with most popular “showrooms” attracting 400K people at a time, earning top streamers $100K+/month
One popular video featured the nation's richest man playing poker. Startups and web giants alike are cashing in by selling virtual gifts … Tweets: @nanduan , @vinodkraju , @kimfox , @davidramli and @...